Ivan Ward

From fashion to football, in dreams and in epiphanies, the effects of castration anxiety, claims Ivan Ward, are ever-present.

Castration

Donald

I read this book to get a simple introduction to Freud's concept of the castration complex/castration anxiety. After finishing the book, I decided that either a) Freud's concept doesn't make much sense and is rooted in loosely connected anecdotes and incredibly odd literary/cultural analysis or b) that Ivan Ward doesn't know what he is talking about and misrepresented the idea. Maybe a combination of both a and b.

In any case, I am not convinced that this idea of castration anxiety is useful for explaining anything, but I'm pretty sure being an old-school Freudian would be a hoot.

Castration

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